Keyboard and Mouse Non-responsive

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 11:28:56PM -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if my keyboard/mouse is USB or not. Both are built into
> the laptop itself.

Which means they're PS/2, but, actually, that should not matter.  The
kernel has drivers for you keyboard & mouse, and talks to X.org via
evdev.  Which is a lot of gibberish you can safely ignore, usually.

> I tried running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, and it asked me a
> couple questions about my keyboard. I rebooted, and it was the same -
> no response.
> 
> Does aptitude log what packages have been recently removed? I can go
> back through that list and see if any are related to xorg and/or
> mouse/keyboard libraries.

/var/log/dpkg.log.

Packages with names like 'hal', 'udev' and 'xserver-xorg-input-evdev'
are important.

I'd assume that if you sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop, you should
get everything necessary for X to work properly.

Good luck,
Marius Gedminas
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